I've never seen so much excuse making in my life. Some of you act like SE doesnt have nearing 40 years of experience in RPG's and almost 15 in MMO's. You act like its some fledgling company making their first ever game.

I'm not even going to bother pulling out quotes from all the hypocrites who insinuate that people who's opinions differ are not the "target audience". Such arrogance. Just because you blindly love everything this game produces doesn't mean you are the sole target audience. If games cater to one side of the coin they will die and die quickly as it dissolves into a small band of die hards which seems to be already happening.

The dev team has time and again said XIV's impossible to achieve goal is to please everyone. Anybody who has half a brain knows that that is impossible. It is just an excuse to be gutless with their choices. An excuse to play everything safe and let other game companies take the design risks so they can just copy them later.

As for the people who say it took XI years to get End Game content, it also took that long to get to the point where you were ready for End Game. The world was rich with content leading to that point. It was a journey. It wasnt...ok i'm going to put my pants on and run a handful of chores and wham bam thank you ma'am lets do this End Game stuff!!!!

Also the elitist demands of wearing certain gear, or playing certain subs, and all of those other things did not run rampant in XI till well after ToAU. I would also like to break the news to you that those players that made and enforced those rules by shunning people are the very people that defend XIV the way it is now. Look in the mirrors kiddies, because you are the ones that started this. That's why video games have to be so simple now. So if you think you are the majority and the "target audience", you are the elitists who cried and whined until everything had to be your way.

Just thought I'd throw in a dose of reality.